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Last week we went to Melbourne with the grade sixes.  WE saw lots of different things while we were in Melbourne.  We left Hawkesdale at 7.00am on Wednesday morning with Campes Coaches.

Thursday 14th August grade 4/5 made our second visit to Hawkesdale Preschool. This time our challenge was to write something that we could read and entertain a kinder person with. We has stories, an icy pole recipe, alphabet poems, and some non-fiction things especially about animals. Grace’s story called Block Your Nose proved very popular. Can you imagine lots of different reasons why you should block your nose ? After sharing our writing and the books we made we played, made, and painted with our young chums.

In maths we investigated how many hours a week, which is168 hours, doing the following - sleeping, eating/drinking, travelling, washing/shower/teeth, in class, playing, chores/work, sport, hobbies/clubs, TV/DVD/Video, Computer Games/X Box/Nintendoetc, Internet, Reading,Other.

Reading ,computers, work, sport etc were all not as part of class time.

Sleep is what we did the most- generally between 70 - 80 hours which is nearly half a week and about 3 days asleep !

We found we spend 25 hours a week in class which was the second most thing we do.

Comparing everyones individual graphs and data, the most common activity that came next in terms of spending the most time was for 7 of us watching TV/DVD and another 7 playing computer games. For 4 it was playing and for 3 it was travel. Sport and hobbies had 1 each.

For what we did the least of was Reading for 10 of us, Chores/Work was for 8 of us, washing, hobbies, internet, and other were the rest.

We all had to present our data on a colored in 168 hour graph and then onto an exel spreadsheet with a computer made pie graph. Next we had to wr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today Mr Clark showed us our school’s new footy jumpers. Unfortunately we will have to wait until next year to wear them. Trev and Jingzy got to model them.

we did grip in class and we had to make a car that was self going so it had to go up slops of 60cm 59cm 35cm and14cm it was fun lukes won you can try it we got the i dear from a movie about grip it was fun to see if your car can go up slops  

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Year 5’s second golf lesson concentratated on using wedge irons. The students had to try and hit or reach targets to win points. The boys averaged 73 points and the girls 69 points. The winning boy was Daniel Rentsch and the winning girl was Grace Simpson. Both of these were decided on play offs.

Yesterday students from Grade 5 and Grade 6 went onto the oval and had a golf lesson.  We got to learn how to hold a golf stick and we had a go of hitting the golf ball as far as we could.  The two girls who hit it the furtherest were Shannon and Che

We have just finished doing our proejcts on the solar system.  We have been working on them for a few weeks now.  We learnt lots of new things.

This year we had the opportunity to play ukueles in our classroom with Mike.  Everyone was given a ukuele and they had colored dots on them to show us where to put our fingers for certain cords.  We got to learn to play two songs.